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I Do Not Support Gun Control

I would hate that the government could take away my guns. I have a right to have them.

When you hear about the school shootings, the senseless murders from people that have mental issues. I think that we need to realize that we cannot control everything. I feel badly for all involved the parents, the children, teachers, community, getting killed in schools. That is tragic and sadly becoming a common thing.

I remember when I was a kid, I never heard of any such thing happening. I think our society has made some huge changes that have affect peoples minds, their thought processes and the lack of taking ownership for their behavior.

In a nutshell, people have lost what I was taught as a child, morals, respect have integrity. We respected our elders, teachers, other parents, older siblings, people of authority, etc. We brought up children as a community. Parents, grandparents, teachers, church community and the neighborhood community. Kids were taken care of and we knew we had people that cared about us if our parents were absent.

Now no one wants to get involved because they will probably get more in trouble than if they had stayed out of it. So children are falling through the cracks. They have no one to go to any more. Many teacher want to be "Friends" now and not a person of authority so that does not help.

It takes one good action that you do for a kid to effect their lives forever. You might never know it, but that kid will remember it. I know I had one person do that for me. She changed my belief in something and I remember her to this day. One bad action could harm a child for life as well. It takes one comment from a person to make a kid feel that he does not matter and once that is in him, it will stay for a while unless he learns to dismiss it. Enough of my thoughts.
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Pherick · 41-45, M
I find this line of thought so interesting. You have a right to your guns because the government gave you that right. The only inalienable rights we have according to our government are [b]Life[/b], Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. Everything else is an add-on.

One thing I would mention as well, your line,[quote]I remember when I was a kid, I never heard of any such thing happening. [/quote] I think this is an interconnected issue. I am sure there was school shooting when you were a kid, but the news was from 6pm to 7pm on the TV. If you weren't watching that or reading a large circulation newspaper, would you have heard about it?

The last point I would make is that the rest of the world has mental health issues, the rest of the world has some guns as well. The rest of the world does not have school shootings the way we have school shootings. So there is something different about the US ...

Thank you though for bringing this up in calm manner, its a nice change. I do agree as well that community is very important and we can do better with our children, but I am not sure that equals more school shootings. Did you see the interview with the family that had Cruz living with them for the past few months, they had NO idea who this evil person was, they reported knowing a nice, polite young man.
@Pherick You are probably right. I also lived in the country but it still was not so out there like it is now. I did not see the family that had Cruz living with them. I did see something last night about a young girl that was taken into a foster home and she killed the mother.

She has mental issues and sadly the family that was doing good lost in the end. Thank you for your posting. I love to hear others thoughts. :)